For those of you who develop using netbeans and who appreciate the benefits of compiz-fusion, you are no doubt familiar with the problems that netbeans 5.x had with compiz-fusion. Specifically the problem with Swing that was resolved by appending 'export AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit' to the end of you /etc/profile.

Today, Ryan C. Gordon alias "icculus", released a demo of Prey for Linux.
Prey is a first-person shooter developed by 3D Realms and Human Head.
The Client is running nativly and is network compatible to the MAC port. Unfortunatelly the demo network code is not compatible to the windows netcode. The full version will be.

Firstly, legitimate users are certainly losing out; prices raised up due to piracy (or using piracy as an excuse, as the case may be) leads to legitimate customers paying more to use the product; effectively meaning that they’re paying for pirates to use the software without paying a dime. But there’s also going to be an often unseen impact on FOSS developers; FOSS isn’t about generating revenue, but public interest and user support is the FOSS community’s lifeblood; if you choose to download a copy of MS Office 2007 instead of OpenOffice.org, OOo’s developers have lost a user, lost a supporter and possibly, lost a contributor. Louis Suarez-Potts, community manager for OpenOffice.org, has said as much himself.

The Linux kernel is flexible, and you can even modify the way it works on the fly by dynamically changing some of its parameters using sysctl command. Sysctl provides an interface that allows you to examine and change several hundred kernel parameters in Linux or BSD. Changes take effect immediately, and there’s even a way to make them persist after a reboot.sysctl is used to modify kernel parameters at runtime. The parameters available are those listed under /proc/sys/. Procfs is required for sysctl support in Linux. You can use sysctl to both read and write sysctl data.Many of the tunable performance items can be configured directly by the kernel. The command sysctl is used to view current kernel settings and adjust them.

Did you know that instead of installing special software to view your webcam video, you can simply use mplayer for the same purpose, and with a lot of fine control. e.g. try running the following command with your webcam attached to your computer.

UNetbootin allows for the installation of various Linux/BSD distributions to a partition or USB drive, so it's no different from a standard install, only it doesn't need a CD. It can create a dual-boot install, or replace the existing OS entirely.

You just want to know that your car will start, your movie will play in synch with the sound, your hotel room is ready and your flight or train will arrive on time. That's perfectly understandable, but here's the thing.

One of the main reasons that all of those things happen, allowing you to go about your daily lives without a care in the world, is… Linux. Yes, Linux, that arcane computer operating system so beloved of beardy, bespectacled types. Let's examine my assertion in greater detail, starting with Singapore Airlines and something called KrisWorld. KrisWorld is not, as you may think, any relation to Wayne's World ­ though it is all about entertainment. KrisWorld is the in-flight entertainment system used by Singapore Airlines, offering video and audio on-demand for all passengers, whether in cattle class or master of the universe class.

As for Microsoft’s products, if you use them I hope you pay for them. If you don’t, you are stealing from Microsoft, and you are also taking away one of the key advantages of the free software community, which is to offer their products free of charge. Competing with pirated proprietary products is a far greater challenge than competing with proprietary products on their terms.

ARMONK, NY – 13 Mar 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new technology to secure "mashups," web applications that pull information from multiple sources, such as Web sites, enterprise databases or emails, to create one unified view. Mashups are attractive for business use, as they allow non-technical users to gain insight on complex situations in minutes, but as with all Web-based initiatives, security has been a concern.

The Ext2 Installable File System For Windows (which supports ext2 and ext3!) can be downloaded from http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html. During the installation you will be asked to assign a drive letter to your Linux partitions (e.g. L:); you don't need to assign a drive letter to your swap partition:

The goal of this page is to list free and commercial solutions that might be important and helpful to companies, organizations, and individuals who want to adopt OpenOffice.org.
The goal of this page is to list free and commercial solutions that might be important and helpful to companies, organizations, and individuals who want to adopt OpenOffice.org.

Sooner or later, you’re going to get the urge to switch distributions — maybe for a change of pace or maybe out of more practical considerations. Here’s a look at some of the most common reasons users feel compelled to make that jump.